Solskjaer refuses to allow McNaughton and Mason to return to Bolton on loan

According to twitter - I'm yet to find a source.

Great news for them, horrible news for Brayford...

Brayford go bye-bye! With Maynard looking likely to go out on loan and Diouf perhaps joining, that means Solskjaer has Diouf, Mason, Cornelius and Campbell all competing to start. That's not bad

I actually feel sorry for brayford, but I dont suppose he cares he gets paid enough,

Tans Tache wrote:I actually feel sorry for brayford, but I dont suppose he cares he gets paid enough,

£18,000 per week basic wage probably cushions the blow...I'm fairly sure he isn't good enough though. Malky, Kerslake and seemingly OGS all don't rate him...so why did Malky and Moody sign him and pay him such high wages?

Slumdog's Son wrote:

Tans Tache wrote:I actually feel sorry for brayford, but I dont suppose he cares he gets paid enough,

£18,000 per week basic wage probably cushions the blow...I'm fairly sure he isn't good enough though. Malky, Kerslake and seemingly OGS all don't rate him...so why did Malky and Moody sign him and pay him such high wages?

And thinking about it, they paid £2million plus significant add-on fees and gave him those wages to be the fourth choice right back, while Super Kev, who is the second choice, was offered a reduced contract of £6,000 per week?!

  

i suspect that has a lot to do with the impending cup-tie as the last thing ogs would want is to have city dumped out by his own players. it may well be that after the tie things may change.

we don't know about what seems to have been a spat between brayford and mackay and when he started ogs said everybody starts with a clean sheet.

on that basis and comparing the book value of of mcnaughton and brayford one has to assume that brayford is much the better player. there has to be a reason why he has not figured in team selection. if anybody says brayford is a tosser then all the more reason why mackay was sacked.

Slumdog's Son wrote:

Slumdog's Son wrote:

Tans Tache wrote:I actually feel sorry for brayford, but I dont suppose he cares he gets paid enough,

£18,000 per week basic wage probably cushions the blow...I'm fairly sure he isn't good enough though. Malky, Kerslake and seemingly OGS all don't rate him...so why did Malky and Moody sign him and pay him such high wages?

And thinking about it, they paid £2million plus significant add-on fees and gave him those wages to be the fourth choice right back, while Super Kev, who is the second choice, was offered a reduced contract of £6,000 per week?!

  

The more i think about it the stupider it seems...no wonder Tan was annoyed. Yet another expensive signing for the Malky scrapheap, along with Velcro, Kiss, Earnie, Lewis, Moore...

in the championship brayford was a quality full-back. i just cant see him deteriorating so much in just a few months, there has to be another reason.

davewebber65 wrote:in the championship brayford was a quality full-back. i just cant see him deteriorating so much in just a few months, there has to be another reason.

Well thats what i had thought.

But i thought the same about Jack Hunt and he hasn't set the Premiership alight. Or done anything. Maybe that shows how big the step up is?

Perhaps he is looking to offload them permanently instead?

Maybe he has a really bad attitude, or he's just s**t

Brayford was brought in to be our first choice right-back ahead of Connolly. Malky was tracking KTC for some time, but it didn't look like he would get him, so therefore went for Brayford. Towards the end of the transfer window, KTC become available, and Malky got his first choice man.

McNaughton started the cup tie because he'd been playing a lot of football lately, so was better suited to start.

*** G L O V E S *** wrote:Brayford was brought in to be our first choice right-back ahead of Connolly. Malky was tracking KTC for some time, but it didn't look like he would get him, so therefore went for Brayford. Towards the end of the transfer window, KTC become available, and Malky got his first choice man.

McNaughton started the cup tie because he'd been playing a lot of football lately, so was better suited to start.

If that is true (and I don't doubt what you say), this is another example of poor transfer judgement by Malky.

Having settled on Brayford, it is safe to presume, surely, that he was regarded as a good enough player. Why therefore spend a further £2m on another RB, when that money could have gone towards strengthening the forward line?

All this talk of Dave jones coming back as a director was certainly laughable but if Jones did one thing well it was getting players in for cheap that later sold for significantly more. Reading between the lines, Jones was excellent at spotting talent and potential which ironically is allegedly Malky's weakness.

Gloves speaks sense.

Brayford 'not being as good stepping up' doesn't make any sense, purely because when him and McNaughton shared the same division, Brayford was on a different league. The idea that McNaughton, who wasn't good enough in the championship , is being picked over Brayford purely on ability is ridiculous.

McNaughton is getting the nod now because Bolton have kept his match fitness up - Brayford is rotting away.